Hook and eye.



s. B. ATGHINSON.

v HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 5, 1912.

1,067,234, Patented July 15, 1913.

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SOPHIA E. ATCHINSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, 1VIASSACHUSETTS.

HOOK AND EYE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOPHIA E. A'rcI-IINsoN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Hook and Eye, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment fasteners of the hook and eye type, andconsists of a hook and eye each formed of a single wire bent in acertain peculiar manner to produce the hook or the eye member and toprovide such member with a shield-pin or safety-pin element wherewith toattach the member to the garment without the use of thread, all ashereinafter set fort-h.

One object of my invention is to produce hooks and eyes which can beeasily and quickly attached to garments without sewing the former to thelatter, and which can be as readily detached, if desired, such hooks andeyes being simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, yetstrong and durable.

A further object is to provide hooks and eyes that can, after beingpinned in place, be sewed to the garment for further security.Ordinarily it is simply necessary to secure them by means of their pins,but when additional security is required provision is made for obtainingthe same The advantages of the safety-pin feature in facilitating theinitial placing of the hooks and eyes which are to be sewed on and inholding them while being sewed on are clearly apparent.

Devices of this kind are usually small and necessarily made ofcomparatively fine wire, hence they need to be stayed at what may betermed their outer ends, and this has been done in the presentconstruction. VVithout the stays, which constitute essential features ofmy invention, the hooks and eyes would be very liable to bend whilebeing pinned to a garment and so have their elliciency impaired if nottheir usefulness altogether destroyed. I

Other objects and advantages Wlll appear in the course of the followingdescription.

I attain the objects and secure the advantages of my invention by themeans illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is atop plan of a hook and eye which embody a practical form of my in.-vention, the two being in engagement with Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed October 5, 1912.

Patented July 15, 1913..

Serial No. 724,106.

each other and their pins being out of the keepers.provided for the freeends or terminals of such pins; Fig. 2, an outer end elevation of theaforesaid eye, the pin of such eye being engaged with the keepertherefor; Fig. 3, an outer end elevation of the aforesaid hook with itspin in engagement with the keeper therefor; Fig. 4, a greatly enlargedcrosssection through the eye, showing the keeper for the pin of said eyein elevation and said pin in engagement therewith and in section, and,Fig. 5, an inner end elevation of said hook, with the pin unfastened.

Similar figures designate similar parts throughout the several views.

Except for the presence of the male element of one and the femaleelement of the other, that is, the bill and the eye proper, the twomembers each considered as a whole and including their keepers arealike.

In the drawings a bill or hook proper is represented at 1 and an eye oreye loop at 2 to receive such hook. The bill 1. is formed at the innerend of the hook element or member, and the eye loop 2 is formed at theinner end of the eye element or member, in the manner described below.At the outer end of each of the aforesaid elements is a brace or stay 3,while at one side of each element is a loop 4, and at the opposite sidea coil which forms a pair of loops that separate or open on the inside,as best shown in Fig. 4:, and constitute a keeper 5 for the freeterminal of a pin 6. The pin 6 in each case extends from one of theloops 4 over to the vicinity of the associated keeper 5, such pin beingsituated between the stay 3 and either the hill 1 or the eye loo) 2,accordingly as it is the pin for the hook or the pin for the eye.

As previously stated, the hook as a whole is made out of a. single wirebent to form the several hook members, and the eye as a whole isconstructed in a similar manner.

Giving attention first to the eye, it will be observed that the wire,out of which it is constructed, starts at 7 where one end of the stay 3is connected with the loop 4, and ends with the point of the pin 6, thisend of said wire being sharpened to produce such point. From the loop orknot 7 the wire extends straight away from the loop 4t to form the stay3, and then said wire is coiled to form the keeper 5. The wire is nextcarried inwardly and then outwardly to form the eye loop 2. Finally thewire is formed into the loop 4, coiled or wrapped about itself at 9, andextended to form the pin 6. The wrapping 9 not only lends strength andrigidity to the construction, but, prevents the goods in which the pinis inserted from working out under the bent wire and getting caught.

The wire for the hook is knotted, extended, looped, wrapped, bent, andotherwise formed up in precisely the same manner is the wire for thehook, except that the parts which correspond to the diagonal eyeoopmembers are formed into the bill 1, such parts constituting billsupports 8-8. The supports 8, instead of being united to form the eyeloop 2, are bent to the right or outwardly to produce the bill 1.

The eye pin extends above its keeper or enters such. keeper from above,while the hook pin extends under its keeper or enters the same frombelow. The pins when unfastened spring away from their keepers, asshow-11 in- Fig, 5, so that it is necessary to press the pointedterminal of each not only inwardly, but either up or down accordingly;as it;is the hook pin or the eye pin, in order toposition such terminalso that it will snap intoits keeper or can be forced into engagementtherein. And for the purpose of rendering the keepers more secure, Iprefer to bend the inner portion of the eye keeper upwardly, as clearlyshown inFig. 4c, and the corresponding portion of the hook keeperdownwardly. By thus bending the keepers, accidental disengagement of thepins, after they have been sprung into place in-said keepers, isavoided; The bend or offset just referred to and which appears.

at: 10 forms arecess for the reception of the pin, from whichrecessthere is no danger of accidental escape on the part of said pin.

Thefollowing will render clear the construction in detail of the keepers5: The Wire, out of which the eye is made, after forming the stay 3 iscarried upwardly and then downwardly to form the offset 10 be forebeingcoiled to form the double loop of'the eye keeper. After beingformed into said double loop the wire extends diagonally inward to enterinto the formation of the eye loop 2. The bends and turns are so madethat the aforesaid double-loop members are arranged one above the otherand both cross that part of the wire that is between the ofi'set 10 andthe adjacent end of. the stay 3. The same is true in every particular ofthe hook-keeper, except that the wire is in this case bent downwardlyand then upwardly after forming the stay 3. The keeper loops are forcedwider apart by the. pins in entering, and then close on such pins. whenthey arrive in the offsets 10, thus holding them very securely.

In Fig. 4 the keeper loops are indicated at 11 and 12, and the entranceto the keeper which they form is indicated at 13. The offset 10 is inthe loop 11.

In practice the hook and eye are attached to the goods by means of thepins 6, the latter being first thrust throughthe goods at the properplaces and then engaged with their keepers 5. The eye pin locates theeye under the cloth and the hook pin locates the hook above the cloth,when the hook and eye are constructed as herein shown and described andapplied as positioned in Fig. l. The eye can be located outside of thecloth as well as the hook, by turning over said eye before applying it.If further security be desired the same may be obtained by sewing theloops 4 and the outer portions of the keepers 5 to the cloth.

I am aware that combination hooks and safety-pins have been producedbefore, and do not therefore claim broadly such a de vice; I am notaware, however, of any device that resembles the hook andeye herein setforth and claimed; and I seek tocover by my claims any and allmodifications to which I may justly be entitled, especiallymodifications in shape, size, and minor points of construction.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A hook and eye fastener, each part having a portion to engage theother part, and being provided with a pin andwi'th a keepertherefor,and-having a stay at the outer end outside of said pin.

2. A hook and eye fastener, each part-consisting of a single wire havinga portion to engage the other part, an outer end stay, loops betweensaid engaging portion and said stay at oppositecnds of and securelyconnected by the latter, one of theloop elements being double andconstituting a keeper, and a pin extending between" said loops andadapted to be engaged withand disengaged from said keeper, saidpin beinglocated between said engaging said endstay.

3. A hook and eye fastener, each part consisting of a single wire havinga portion to engage the other part, an outer end stay, loops betweensaid engaging portion and said stay at opposite ends of the latter, oneof the loop elements being double andco11-' stituting a keeper, and apin extending between said loops and adapted to be engaged with anddisengaged from said keeper, said pin being located between saidengaging portion and said end stay, and also being at oneterminalwrapped around the loop from portion and which said pin springs.V

4. A hook and eye fastener, each part consisting of a portion at one endtoengage the other part, a stay at the. other end, loops atthe sides,the ends ofsaid stay being se curely connectedwith said loops, wherebythe part is rendered stable at its outer ends, and an intermediatelysituated pin extending from one of such loops to the other, the secondof such loop elements being double and constituting a keeper for suchpin.

5. A hook and eye fastener, each part consisting of a Wire having aportion to engage the other part, an outer end stay, single and doubleloops between said engaging portion and said stay at opposite ends ofthe latter, said double loop being coiled to provide an opening at oneside and provided With a pin-receiving offset to form a keeper, suchoffset affording a recess in itself which opens into the space betweenthe doubleloop elements, and a pin extending from said single loop tosaid double loop and adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from saidkeeper, said pin being located between said engaging portion and saidend stay.

6. A hook and eye fastener, each part consisting of a single Wireforming a stay at one end of the device, continuing to form a coilconstituting a keeper and extending thence to form engaging means forthe other part of the fastener, thence to form a loop at the other endof the stay, and thence to form a pin tvhich lies between said stay andsaid engaging means.

SOPHIA E. ATCHINSON.

Witnesses A. C. F AILRBANKS, H. G. CUTTER.

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